Facebook Trending

Trending is what happens on Facebook now. Millions of people use Facebook to share stories every second. Now with updates to Facebook Trending you can find relevant conversations about popular news.
Trending is available to mobile in the US for Android. Support for iPhone and the rest of the world will come soon.

There are five different sections: Articles, In the story, Friends and Groups, Near the Scene, Live Feed.

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What's new on Facebook Video

If you have a story to tell the best way is to show it with a video. One of the biggest video audience are the Facebook users. You have just to upload directly on Facebook your video and it will become an important part of your friends News Feed. Every day there are more than 1 billion video views on Facebook. 65% of this views are on mobile.

Facebook reports the results of the first quarter 2015

With a strong start in this year Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) will continue to focus connecting the world with the social network Facebook.com, Instagram, Messenger, Whatsapp and Oculus.

The revenue for the first 3 months in 2015 is $ 3,543 million and is nearly $ 1 billion more one year ago for the same period.

Here is some statistics for this period.
1. 936 million active users every day. This is an increase of 17 % year-over-year.
2. Increase of 31% of the mobile users - 798 million per day.
3. The monthly active users are 1.44 billion with an increase of 13% for 1 year.
4. The mobile monthly active users are 1.25 billion - 24 % more.
5. Think about to buy Facebook Stock and let's see what will they do next year.

Say Hello!

A new app build by the Facebook's Messenger team can help you to see who is calling you. The app is in a test phase but it promise to be one of the app that you will use to call friends.

In the Facebook post about the app is written "When you get a call, Hello will show you info about who’s calling you, even if you don’t have that number saved in your phone. You will only see info that people have already shared with you on Facebook. You can also search for people and businesses on Facebook and call them with just one tap. So if a friend tells you about a new restaurant in your neighborhood, you can use Hello to find their hours, make a reservation and get directions, all without leaving the app."

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You can test the app and see if it is for you now. But this is a beta so give time to Facebook and wait for the improvements in the Hello app.

Riff - a new app to make videos

3, 2, 1 Riff! A new great tool comes from the Facebook Creative Labs. Now you can easy create videos and share it with your Facebook friends in the Riff app or in Facebook. But you are not alone. All you friends can add some video sequence to your video. And it will be a big fun video. What's a teamwork!

Here are the steps to make a popular video on Facebook:

1. Have a cool idea and shot a short video.
2. Publish the video on Riff.
3. All your friends and your friend's friends can see the video and decide to add their clips to your video.
4. Make the short film popular - on Facebook, Youtube and anywhere else on Internet.

Image from newsroom.fb.com

Download Riff from Google Play Store and Apple App Store.Here are some ideas you can create.
1. Start a birthday video wish and ask all your friends to join.
2. Shot a video of your hand - every hand is unique so beg your friends to film their hands and add the video to yours.
3. Film the view from your window.
4. Make 10 push-ups and count till 100+ with the added friend's videos.
5. Smile for the camera. Make the biggest smile with Facebook friends.
6. Thanks for sharing :)

Oscars on Facebook

The Oscars are the biggest event in the US film industry. Last year more that 11 million people posts about the Hollywood's most watched night.

You can make a big Oscars experience with the new Trending page where you can see friends posts, real-time chat from users around the world, get the latest and the most shared photos and videos, view post from the major sources like the Academy, ABC, actors, directors, films and other public figures. Just join now and share your troughs.

Facebook Down

Facebook was down for about 50 minutes on 27 January 2015. No one in the world couldn't check for updates on the Facebook News feed. A quite place for 50 minutes.

Facebook down - a Screenshot of Facebook.com

A Facebook spokesperson said, “Earlier this evening many people had trouble accessing Facebook and Instagram. This was not the result of a third party attack but instead occurred after we introduced a change that affected our configuration systems. We moved quickly to fix the problem, and both services are back to 100% for everyone.”

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